Evolution: Endogenous Viruses Provide Shortcuts in Antiviral Immunity

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• 作者：Aris Katzourakis ; ^{aris.katzourakis@zoo.ox.ac.uk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Amr Aswad
• 刊名：Current Biology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：23 May 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：26
• 期：10
• 页码：R427-R429
• 全文大小：459 K

文摘

Endogenous viruses are occasionally co-opted by their hosts to combat other viruses. The discovery of the widespread recruitment of endogenous viruses as regulatory elements for immune genes points to a systematic evolutionary process in their co-option for host immunity.